Chapter 37 City of Ashes (Part 1)

City of Ashes.

In the wilderness there are not only grasslands, jungles, mountains, rivers, but also cities.

City of Ashes is such a place.

No one knows how the city came to be or how it was built, but there is no doubt that it, like the Ant Hills, is one of the most famous places in the wilderness.

Driving to the City of Ashes, looking around, there is a desolate and dilapidated scene everywhere.

The collapsed buildings are covered with weeds, the roads are desolate and desolate, and there is no trace of human habitation.

Unlike the cities in the Terminator world, although they are also doomsday ruins, there are not many modern buildings in the City of Ashes.

Occasionally there are a small number of car wrecks, but they only seem to be embellished, making it look less like a modern city, more like a desolate and remote remote town, and the technology span is extremely large - there are thatched buildings that have been burned to ashes. There are also tall buildings made of steel. There are a few cars, but there are also some futuristic aircraft that can only be seen in TV movies, and even some steel robots, heavy armor and so on.

The off-road vehicle is driving slowly on the desolate road, and there are ruins everywhere, as if it has experienced a terrible fire. The traces left by the fire are everywhere, no wonder it is called the city of ashes.

Go straight along the road, and you can still see all kinds of huge corpses.

Most of these corpses belonged to ferocious beasts in the wilderness, among which Shen Yi and the others were familiar, and some they were not familiar with, except that there were no human beings.

Judging from the degree of weathering of the corpses and the dilapidation of the ruins, it has been deserted for at least decades.

The area of ​​the City of Ashes is small, the entire ruins are long and narrow, from the second area to the third area, spanning two difficulty areas. Therefore, it is not strange to encounter fierce beasts from the third difficulty here, and this is also one of the most troublesome places in City of Ashes.

Since Zisha has never been to North Second District, Shen Yi doesn't have much information about the City of Ashes. I only know that the Panheng people here are mainly some undead creatures, and those beasts that live in the jungle and wilderness rarely visit here.

In addition, the satellites did not give any clues, and the pictures were all ruins, and the whole ruins looked quiet and lifeless.

The car stopped at an intersection.

Shen Yi and the others jumped out of the car, and then put the car back to the coat of arms.

He quickly walked a few steps forward, jumped onto the ruins of a building, pointed to a dark shadow in the distance and said, "That's the emerald mine."

The emerald mine is where the mission order cards are produced.

To be precise, it is a necessary place to obtain mission order cards.

The task instruction card itself is not obtained by killing ferocious beasts, but must obtain seven kinds of special emeralds from the emerald mine, and after synthesizing them, they will be given by the system. And these seven kinds of emeralds are not obtained by killing monsters, but by finding ores. Of course, there will inevitably be some fierce beasts in the mine looking for trouble for you.

Therefore, task order cards can be said to be the easiest and most difficult to obtain among the special props in the four regions - half depends on luck, and half depends on strength.

The importance of luck is even greater than strength.

"From now on, we will live here for at least fifteen days. During these fifteen days, on the one hand, we must pay attention to searching for scrolls to improve skills, and on the other hand, we must find ways to dig out all the seven-color emeralds.

"Shen Yi said.

"It really sounds like a game, but mining is still needed." Hong Yang muttered, "I really don't know what the designers of the city thought."

"Don't you realize it? This world was originally designed according to the characteristics of the game." Shen Yi curled his fingers: "There are cities that can be used for living and trading, there are mission worlds similar to dungeons, and there are wilderness areas that are strictly divided into difficult areas. There are even mines that can be mined..."

"The question is why?" Wen Rou was puzzled: "Could it be that the creator of the city is just to play a game, and we are all players?"

Shen Yi's face suddenly became gloomy: "Of course not, but in their view, this kind of world is the most acceptable world for human beings at present."

Gentle and puzzled: "I don't understand what you mean by that?"

Shen Yi didn't explain, but his eyes became deeper and deeper.

After a while, he raised his head and said softly: "In the past, there was no bloody city here, only death camps. This is what the staff told me. At that time, I thought, why did the bloody city exist later, and why the existence of the city has nothing to do with human beings? The need fits so well... I didn't know it until yesterday, when I suddenly understood."

"Understood what?" King Kong asked.

"Management." Shen Yi replied: "The reason why people love online games is that they can obtain experiences that ordinary people cannot get in games. But few people notice the social structure in games. It is simpler, more convenient, and can satisfy The needs of the people are conducive to management and rule... Maybe the bloody city exists because of it!"

The meaning in Shen Yi's words was a bit vague, and everyone was confused. Just as he was about to ask again, Shen Yi had already raised his hand: "Don't ask any more, I can only guess about some things now, and I don't have a definite answer, but don't worry, Sooner or later, we'll know everything about the world."

At this moment, Ruan suddenly pointed to the distance: "Look, what is that?"

Looking along the gentle fingers, Shen Yi saw that it was clearly the skeleton of a ferocious beast. It's just that the skeleton looks huge, from a distance, it looks like a mountain.

Everyone looked at each other and ran towards the skeleton at the same time. When they got close, they found that it was indeed a skeleton. It's so huge that you have to be some distance away from it to get the full view.

The skeleton was about 400 meters long and 30 meters high, with white ribs poking out into the sky like sharp swords, it looked like a giant dragon lying on the ground.

But if you look closely, you will find that this is not a dragon at all, because the skeleton also has hundreds of claws, it looks more like a centipede with many legs.

Standing under the white skeleton, Shen Yi and the others looked like ants standing at the foot of a giant. They looked up at each other, and at the same time felt extremely shocked in their hearts - if this thing was alive, how powerful would it be?

What is even more surprising is that there is no record of this creature, either in the information given by Zisha or in urban legends. Judging from the shape of this creature, it is impossible for it to be unknown anyway, but no one has seen it in the wilderness, and only one corpse remains here.

Occasionally, it is found by people, but they don't know what it is.

In the middle of this huge "centipede", a spine has been broken, and this centipede was split in two.

But that's not its Achilles' heel.

Shen Yi walked around to the head of the skeleton, took a closer look and said: "The top of the head was hit, and the injury went through the entire head, this is the fatal injury."

After thinking about it, he simply jumped into the skull to check.

Wen Rou was a little scared: "Heart!"

Shen Yi turned around and smiled: "What are you thinking? This big guy suddenly came back to life and ate me up?"

Gentlely stuck out her tongue, smiled without saying a word.

While observing, Shen Yi murmured to himself: "The edge of the fracture is not neat, it is narrow and long, and the length is about one meter. It should be a melee weapon damage. The length is one meter, what weapon can be so wide?"

King Kong interface: "A super huge sword, just like the sword of the king of hell before it changed."

"That's right, it's even bigger than that. The one who killed it was also a giant." Shen Yi said in a slow voice, and he looked around: "There are a total of sixty-four teeth, very sharp, the mandible is thick, and the chewing force must be strong. This is a terrifying ubiquitous creature."

He called Zeus out: "Analyze the skeleton and see how long it's been dead. It would be nice if you could draw more conclusions."

"What's in it for me?" Zeus asked back.

"There is no benefit, but if you refuse to execute, you will suffer the fate of being dismantled."

Shen Yi walked to the giant bone's throat: "It was also attacked here, the mouth was round, half a meter in diameter, and there was a scorched black mass nearby, it should have been hit by an energy weapon from a long distance, it was not killed by a single person. "

Walking inward along the throat, Shen Yi found several scars.

One of the ribs was broken, and it was obvious that it was broken by a fist, and there was still an imprint of a person's fist on it.

Shen Yi compared his fist with that fist mark, they were about the same size.

He suddenly punched a bone.

Hearing a bang, the bone acted as if nothing had happened, and Shen Yi's arm went numb from the shock.

This scene made people horrified, Shen Yi had already shouted: "Hong Yang, cut off this bone!"

Roaring, Hong yang swung the sword of the king of hell, and slashed fiercely on a rib. A crack was cut in the rib, but it was not broken.

Hong Yang was stunned, he didn't expect this bone to be so hard. With his current strength and the sword of the king of hell, even a heavy tank can be cut in two with one sword, but he can't do anything to the bones of this dead thing.

This angered him: "Blood mania!"

He roared and swung his sword again, slashing heavily at the place he had attacked before, finally cutting it in two.

Shen Yi nodded, pointing to the fist mark on the bone: "This punch must have at least two hundred points of strength to do it."

Two hundred points of strength? Everyone turned to Shen Yi: "You mean?"

"Well, it was killed jointly by at least a few adventurers with general-level strength."

"Are you kidding me!" Hong 1ang yelled: "This is the second district, how could there be monsters that require the joint efforts of several generals to kill?"

Shen Yi replied lightly: "In the wilderness, there was no division of difficulty areas, and the establishment of order always takes time."

Everyone froze, and was about to ask another question, when Zeus suddenly said: "Sir, sir, according to my test, I found that this big guy should have some kind of powerful flame-breathing ability during his lifetime."

"How strong is it?" Shen Yi asked.

"Given it enough time, it can reduce a city to ashes."

Shen Yi was silent.

After a while, he said, "I think we know how this place was destroyed."

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